Ann Arbor resident and longtime Ghostly International label affiliate Tadd Mullinix has created aliases by the bucketload. There are his solo projects — Dabrye, SK-1 and James T Cotton, AKA JTC — and collaborations, too (with Todd Osborn, he created TNT, acid explosions of the jacking house kind). As Dabrye, Tadd Mullinix found a kindred spirit in J Dilla, creating a retaliation against the introspective posturing of the golden-era disciples with “Game Over,” an electronic banger for the _Ruff Draft_ generation. Whether collaborating with out-of-the-box-thinking MCs like DOOM, MED or Vast Aire, or relying on the instrumental strengths of his mind-blowing arrangements on albums like _One/Three_ and _Two/Three_, Mullinix’s musical affiliation with Michigan goes beyond the dusty, off-kilter soul of the Yancey kind, exhibiting its techno tendencies.
